Examples

"We are being put under pressure to take part in the electoral farce, so that the US and Europe could have a chance to recognize Lukashenka, that is, the West is substituting notions, and instead of basic notions and principles of democracy and human rights is trying to play some kind of game," stated one of the leaders of the civil campaign "European Belarus" Andrei Sannikov in an interview to the Voice of America.

Yet here, too, not only did Yeltsin support Lukashenka, but he also sponsored separatist wars in Abkhazia, Transdnistr, South Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh -- specifically to punish breakaway republics for disloyalty to Moscow.